Comments on: GNU Science and otter matters https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/ Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492274 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492274 In reply to Charles Sullivan.

I assume you mean “kill” in some sort of metaphorical sense. Or is this an actual threat for which you should be put on Internet Probation until some non existent future time when unnamed individuals decide to let you off Internet Probation?

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492272 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:44:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492272 Why wait for Thanksgiving? If z is the radius of your pizza,and a is the depth of your pizza then the volume of your pizza is:

Pi * z * z * a

–bks

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492273 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:33:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492273 Yep, used the GSL for linear algebra problems and non-linear solutions to equation sets. There are other free math libraries as well such as the Los Alamos National Laboratory Basic Linear Algebra Set, LAPACK, and LINPACK and many other goodies from government funded research labs as well as other groups around the world. I just can’t understand colleagues who waste time and money on the “Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN” stuff – or worse still the other incarnations of the “Numerical Recipes” zombie.

]]> By: Charles Sullivan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492271 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:26:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/04/18/gnu-science-and-otter-matters/#comment-492271 I do want to kill the narrator of the otter video.

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